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As Chicago prepares for the 20th edition of Lollapalooza next weekend, here are 10 notes about music festivals:
1 Creedence Clearwater Revival was the first big-name band lined up for Woodstock, the mother of all rock music festivals. The group's signing...

Amid accusations that Willow Creek Community Church promotes an “anti-gay agenda,” the Rev. Bill Hybels today tried to clear the air by clarifying the church’s views on homosexuality.
“We challenge homosexuals and heterosexuals to live out the sexual...

Gasoline prices keep climbing to record levels, topping $4 a gallon in Chicago. A guy in Valparaiso, Ind., got arrested recently for singing a gasoline protest song from the roof of a service station. It's no wonder Americans take these price hikes...

Loath as I am to play into Time's annual bid for attention with its "Person of the Year," I nevertheless give you the results of the magazine's reader poll for the designation -- please, not the honor -- of the ...

This didn't take long. You don't even need to say, "Shove it," any more. You just say, "Teresa Heinz," and everyone knows what you mean.
I barreled up to a former celebrity peace activist--Jane Fonda's ex-husband Tom Hayden--to ask...

I have no excuse for this oversight. I can only apologize that it was not until the closing hours of the Republican convention that I wandered up to the complimentary spa and makeover station set up in the building where the reporters covering the...

"Vote Carrie," says the big campaign button somebody handed me in Times Square.
Sure, it's a gimmick. But, as Carrie Bradshaw might type into her Mac, "Does politics really have to be so white, middle-aged and male? What if a savvy,...

Those colored sunglasses U2 frontman Bono always wears? There’s a reason behind them.
"I have glaucoma," the 54-year-old superstar told British talk show host Graham Norton in a recent interview of him and his band mates. "For the last...

U2's June 22 concert at M&T Bank Stadium is inarguably the biggest show Baltimore will have all year. The superlative applies not only because no other headliner approaches the band's supernova-sized star power, but also literally: The show, part of...

Don't try to convince Jason Siemer that Wednesday's U2 concert is only a rock show. He knows better.
"For me, U2 is about a spiritual connection," says Siemer, 36, who runs a video production company out of his Locust Point home. "I...

Three years in the making, Wednesday's U2 concert at M&T Bank Stadium could attract a record crowd — along with gridlock in the streets — at a time when uncertainty over the NFL season leaves Baltimore looking for more ways to fill the stadium.
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Christine Spencer left her home in Frederick at 3 a.m. just so she could get a jump on the thousands of U2 fans expected to pack M&T Stadium on Wednesday night.The early effort paid off. Just before noon, she and her two friends were among the first...

U2 guitarist David Evans, a.k.a. the Edge, has a dream: to build five contemporary houses on a hill high above Malibu, with expansive views of the Santa Monica Mountains, the Malibu Pier, Surfrider Beach and the Pacific Ocean.
But accomplishing that...

Paul Theroux's contribution to the revival of contemporary travel writing is so seminal that casual readers may be inclined to forget that most of his rather astonishingly prodigious output has been literary fiction."A Dead Hand: A Crime in...

A memorial service for U.S. District Judge Robert M. Takasugi will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday at Town and Gown on the USC campus, 665 Exposition Blvd. Takasugi died Aug. 4 at the age of 78.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Robert...

Bob Dylan, dressed for the Grammys in a pewter troubadour's coat and a dandy western tie, arrived backstage to greet the assembled press after winning the album of the year award for 1997, but before the first question he turned to his handlers and asked,...

I'm lying naked facedown on a table while a masseuse anoints my feet with a balm of freshly crushed organic Meyer lemon, sage and olive oil. Part of me finds the sensation "rejuvenating" and "invigorating," as the spa description...

When pop stars Mariah Carey, Beyoncé, Nelly Furtado and 50 Cent recently said they'd renounced millions of dollars they'd received for performing for members of Libyan strongman Moammar Kadafi's family, they drew attention to a growing and...

A Palm Springs estate once owned by the late singer and politician Sonny Bono and his wife, Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack, has come on the market at $3,995,000.
The nearly 6,648-square-foot main house and two guesthouses sit on 1.5 gated...

Avi Rubin is known for annoying large companies and important people.
Two years ago, the Johns Hopkins University professor first alerted the country to troubling vulnerabilities in electronic voting, much to the consternation of election officials...